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 Message 1978 
 Janis Kracht to Jeff Smith 
 Polling a Node? 
 02 Feb 18 22:53:00 
 
Hi Jeff,

>I have noticed a situation regarding polling that I was  curious about. I have
> setup a system on another PC here.  I have added the necessary [Node Remap]
> connection info.

> The problem is that if I do a manual poll as in Alt-P the poll is executed as
> expected. Once completed it is executed again, and again, and again,...

>I am forced to terminate the poll by issuing the command bbbs bom d 
. > At which point the polling terminates. > The question that occurs to me is BBBS is possibly not seeing the poll as >successful and continues to keep trying. Or, the polled system isn't respondin > in a manner that BBBS sees as successful and so BBBS retries. > Anyone else seen this type of behavior? It happens here once in a while... not that often. It happens to my bbbs mailer when it cannot complete the transfer. Typically it is because of some problem with the node bbbs is trying to dial - it could be any one of the following: #The node bbbs is trying to dial has it's own problems and needs to be reset by the sysop... [often] #There was some typo in external.bbb's remap section [ok, I'm not perfect ] Hope this helps :) Take care, Janis > Jeff --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

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